New Police Story

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New Police Story
New Police Story Chinese DVD cover
Directed by	Benny Chan
Produced by	Jackie Chan Willie Chan Barbie Tung Solon So
Written by	Alan Yuen
Starring	Jackie Chan Nicholas Tse Daniel Wu
Music by	Tommy Wai
Cinematography	Anthony Pun
Editing by	Yau Chi-Wai
Distributed by	JCE Movies Limited
Release date(s)	September 24, 2004 October 13, 2006
Running time	122 min.
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Preceded by	Police Story 4: First Strike
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New Police Story is also an alternate title for the 1993 Hong kong film Crime Story.

New Police Story (traditional Chinese: 新警察故事; pinyin: Xīn Jǐngchá Gùshì, Cantonese Jyutping: San ging chaat goo si) is a 2004 Hong Kong crime-action film starring Jackie Chan and directed by Benny Chan.

The film is a reboot of the Police Story series. New Police Story is much more dramatic and darker than its predecessors.

1 Plot synopsis
2 Cast
3 Box office
4 U.S. Version
5 Awards
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Plot synopsis

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Inspector Chan and his hung men

The film begins with a highly intoxicated police Inspector Chan Kwok Wing (Chinese:陈国荣; pinyin: chén guóróng; Jyutping: chan4 gwok3wing4; ) drinking one whiskey after another. Later, he collapses in an alley, and is found by a stranger, played by Nicholas Tse.

The timeline then moves back a year, to show the heroics of Inspector Chan, as he disguises himself as a news cameraman in order to subdue a man holding a woman hostage in Central.

Soon after that incident, a group of rich, rebellious youths rob a bank. They explicitly ask a bank worker to call the police, and are confronted by the police outside the Legislative Council building. They play a sadistic game, in which they are awarded money for shooting police officers, before making their escape.

Inspector Chan and his squad are called to arrest the gang after their hideout is revealed. However, the hideout is rigged and the ten-man police squad fall into various traps one by one. Chan then finds his men in a large warehouse, suspended from the high ceiling by ropes. The gang challenges him to play games with them, and to protect his men, Chan is forced to agree. The first games is to re-assemble his handgun before Joe does - Chan loses and two of his men are killed; the second game is with Tin Tin - whoever falls to the ground during the fight loses - Chan loses once again, thus another two of his men are sacrificed. Chan then bets the remaining four of his men on a final fight, Tin Tin agrees to the bet, but Chan finally wins the round. However, Joe kills all but one of Chan's men regardless. In the end, only the brother of Chan's fiancée remains. Despite Chan's efforts to lower him down safely, he dies of internal injuries. Chan then just manages to escape before a bomb is set off, destroying the hideout.

Being the sole survivor of the incident, Chan takes a year-long leave from the police force, drinking heavily to drown his sorrows.

The timeline jumps back to the present day. After his latest round, he sees a woman whose bag is snatched by two youngsters. In his drunken state, he is knocked down and robbed by the youths. Later, he is found by an unknown man, who takes him home. When Chan wakes up, the man identifies himself as PC 1667, Frank Cheng (Chinese:郑晓峰; pinyin: zhèng xiǎofēng; ), his new partner. Frank informs Chan that the gang that killed his men have recently struck again, and have made a computer game based on the events of the night his team was murdered. He suggests that by playing the game, they can keep track of the gang's moves, but Chan is reluctant to pursue the case. However, when he sees the two same bag-snatchers committing another crime, Frank reminds Chan that he is a police officer, bringing him back to his senses. He successfully apprehends them, and at the police station, Frank tells Chan that he is Kwong's younger brother, which makes him realise that he must try to stop the gang.

It is then revealed that Joe, the leader of the gang, is the spoiled son of the police chief. As he was beaten and handcuffed by his father in his childhood, Joe holds a grudge against the police.

Joe and his gang

Chan returns to his office, vowing to stop the gang once and for all. Their first clue comes from his former colleague, Wong Sum, who resigned from the force a year ago, after the incident with the gang. He shows Chan a watch he managed to grab from one of the gang members, a girl named Sue. They track Sue to a rooftop extreme sports party. However, the police have also sent a large number of men to investigate the venue, bringing Wong Sum with them. Before Wong Sum is able to identify the girl to whom the watch belongs, another gang member, Fire, soars towards him on his BMX and shoots him dead. Before dying, Wong Sum confesses to Chan that he betrayed their plans to the gang before the police took action.

Using a climbing rope, Fire jumps from the roof, cycling down the angled wall of the building, while the girl slides down on roller blades. To distract Chan, Fire shoots at a bus driver, rendering the bus out of control. Chan quickly jumps onto the roof of the bus in an attempt to stop it. After the careening bus has caused a great deal of havoc, Chan finally manages to climb in and hit the brakes, halting it from falling into Victoria Harbour.

After the incident, Chan discovers that Frank is not really a policeman, and confronts him. Frank says to Chan that he had wanted to become a policeman ever since a kind one helped him after his poor father was killed. Not believing Frank, Chan cuts him off and reprimands him for lying. Regardless, they stay together to continue to track the gang leader, Joe. They are informed by Officer Sa Sa that the gang members all come from rich families and the gang leader, is the son of the police chief. Meanwhile, Joe's gang access Chan's police file on a computer.

Sue and Fire return to the gang's new hideout. Sue is badly wounded, having been shot by Frank. Seeing her injury, Joe shoots and kills her remorselessly.

Later, Chan and Frank follow Joe to Chan's girlfriend's house. However, this is just a distraction, as another gang member, Max, drives over to Chan's car and drops a smoke grenade into it making it impossible to drive and stalling them.

Joe then arranges to meet Chan's girlfriend, Ho Yee, in the police station. He wraps a time bomb around her neck before leaving. When Chan learns of the bomb he desperately tries to free her, but before she can escape, it explodes and some falling pipes land on her, knocking her into a coma. Unfortunately for Chan, he is charged with being responsible for the bombing and is imprisoned in the police station, along with Frank.

After they are taunted by Joe's gang, Sa Sa coerces her father, the jailer, into releasing Chan and Frank. Sa Sa leaves and her father follows, but not after "accidentally" dropping his keys to the cell right in front of Chan and Frank. The two sneak out of the police station, with everyone deliberately ignoring their escape. Police Chief Wong even makes his handgun available to Chan and tells Chan to 'bring it back when you're done'. Chan, Frank, and Sa Sa then go to a computer cafe to find teens playing the game up until they complete the most recent level to find out the gang's next target - the Bank of Hong Kong, located in the New Wing of the Convention and Exhibition Centre.

A squad of police officers arrive, but this time Chan stops them from rushing in, assigning them the task of calmly escorting the public out of the building. Once the public are moved to safety, the gang members' parents are sent in, much to their surprise. One of the gang members, Max, is so ashamed of himself that he attempts to run down the escalators to his parents, only to be shot dead by Joe.

Frank and Sa Sa

Afterwards, Chan and Frank run up to engage the three remaining gang members. Frank manages to shoot Fire in the leg with his own gun, disabling him. Chan chases another gang member, Tin Tin, into a Lego exhibition. When the exhibition hall is emptied, Chan reminds him that neither won the last time they fought. The two engage in hand-to-hand combat, with Chan defeating Tin Tin. Joe then chases Frank into the hall and shoots at him. In the cross fire, Tin Tin is shot in the chest.

Joe manages to chase Frank out of the room just moments before the Special Duties Unit of the police arrive. Tin Tin grabs a gun from the floor and points it at Chan's back. Chan, oblivious to what's happening behind him, calls out to the squad to bring in a medic for the Tin Tin. Contemplating what he has done and how Chan is helping him, he decides not shoot him.

Chan finds Joe on the roof of the Convention Centre. Having captured and tied up Frank, Joe threatens to throw him to his death. Joe challenges Chan to a race to assemble a semi-automatic pistol, a rematch of an earlier challenge, wagering Frank's life in the process. This time, Chan swiftly wins the game, placing the bullet in the barrel first, and immediately aims his gun at Joe. A number of policemen arrive on the roof, along with Joe's father, the police chief. Joe's father reprimands him, while Chan tells Joe that he knows that he doesn't hate cops, but he actually hates his father for berating him.

Not knowing that Joe's gun is empty, a police sniper then fires two rounds at him, forcing Joe to let go of the rope suspending Frank. Chan tries to save him, grabbing onto the rope, but is dragged down the building by Frank's weight. During their fall, the rope hooks on the tip of one of the roof planks. The rope is wrapped around Frank's neck. When they fall, Chan clutches onto a support pillar and grasps Frank between his legs. He eventually loses his grip and the pair fall, but land safely on an airbed erected by firemen.

In the hospital, Chan's girlfriend has recovered and prepares to leave. She is met by several policemen and nurses who persuade her to accept Chan's marriage proposal. At first, she tries to hide her facial scars from Chan, but eventually accepts the proposal to the crowd's applause. Meanwhile, Frank is led away by Officer Sa Sa. He leaves his jacket on a railing. When Chan looks at the jacket, he has a flashback.

A man from the mainland arrives without much money, and his son is starving. He tries to steal some food for his son from a 7-Eleven store. While running across the road to escape from the shopkeeper and the police, he is knocked down by a truck and killed. The cops begin to kick the body of the man. Chan arrives at the scene and stops them, saying that even a thief has dignity. He orders his men to call the ambulance, while using his jacket to cover the body of the boy's father. Chan then buys the boy a loaf of bread. He comforts him, saying the best thing do is to try to forget it and look forward to the future. He asks the boy for his name--it is Frank Cheng.

[edit] Cast

Chan on the runaway bus

Jackie Chan as Inspector Chan Kwok Wing
Nicholas Tse as Frank Cheng
Charlie Yeung as Ho Yee Sun
Daniel Wu as Joe Kwan
Charlene Choi as Sa Sa
Dave Wong as Sam / Wong Sum
Hayama Hiro as Max Leung
Terence Yin as Fire
Coco Chiang as Sue Chow
Andy On as Tin Tin Law
Liu Kai Chi as Chief Wong
Steven Cheung as thief
Kenny Kwan as thief
Wu Bai as Father of Frank Cheng

[edit] Box office

New Police Story opened in Hong Kong on September 23, 2004, where it made $5,625,746 HKD in its first three days. It ended its run with $21 million HKD, making it the fourth highest-grossing domestic release of the year.

On October 13, 2006, the film received a limiting release in the United Kingdom. In its opening weekend the film grossed $19,332 having been shown in 16 theatres. It ranked #21 at the box office and averaged $1,208 per theatre.^[1] As of October 22, 2006, New Police Story had grossed a total of $33,404 in its two week release in the UK.^[2] British film critic Jonathan Ross gave the film a fairly positive review and felt that Chan could "still do the business".^[3]

[edit] U.S. Version

New Police Story was released on DVD by Lions Gate. The DVD included an English dub, with participation by Jackie Chan. When played in its original language, it contains dubtitles. A cut was made towards the end of the film wherein a young Frank Cheng was being escorted back to the PRC by Chan.